Comment on Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks

CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  God yes.

  I was looking at phones yesterday and thinking: do they make an actual, premium flip phone with keyboard a la the old Motorola Razr? It appears nobody does. All I could find were cheap shitty Chinese plasticky trash or phones made for the elderly.

  I want something with a nice metal/titanium case, premium keyboard, decent oled screen, 10+ megapixel camera on it… and something that I can snap shut like it owes me money. Don’t make it too small; I want a week’s battery life at least and swappable battery.

  And I would - and I’m not joking here - pay 600-800 euros for that, depending on how premium the experience is.

  I think there’s absolutely a market for that.

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A weeks battery is insane, 7-10 times as big as the average battery now.

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    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Back in the ‘sweet spot’ of cellphone use, the late ‘90’s, you could get several days of use out of a battery. Some only needed a weekly charge. I also don’t need or want a flip phone to do everything that a smartphone does.

      I’m a big proponent of making phones bigger with bigger batteries. I’ve got huge hands and most phones feel dainty and fragile. Give me a house brick with a week long battery and I’d be perfectly happy. Making phones slimmer is just silly.

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      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t mind phones being chonky, I mind them being large in other dimensions. I have small hands and my Pixel 7a is on the edge of what I can use comfortably with one hand.

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    • nexas_XIII@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I get about a weeks battery out of my Punkt, but I don’t use it for much besides the occasional text or call. I suspect if I used it more I’d wager I’d get 4 days out of it.

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  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look at Kyocera Digno 903KC, Sharp Aquos K3 or Freetel Mode 1 Retro II. Their idea is retro design with somewhat modern OS. It’s still Android but very old one. None the less you can run WhatsApp, Signal and the like.

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    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ll look into those. That Sharp looks ancient though? I’m seeing videos on it from 6 years ago, assuming it’s the correct one.

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      • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s likely my memory is out of date, but at least you have a starting point for search. They make those kinds of phones. I know Samsung has Galaxy Folder. Not to be mistaken with Fold. Only thing am aware of that was released recently is Cat S22 Flip, in 2021.

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